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Lucy Smith, and another as Miss Mary Smith, we should 

 say : " Yesterday I met Miss Smith, with black eyes and 

 chestnut hair, who is rather tall, stoops a , little in the 

 shoulders, has a pretty little foot, and speaks with a lisp ; and 

 I asked her how the Miss Smith was, with blue eyes, auburn 

 hair, pale cheeks, and a majestic air, and with a mole on her 

 chin." Nothing, as Rousseau observes, could be more 

 pedantic or, ridiculous, than for a person, when asked the 

 name of a flower, to be obliged to " answer with a long file 

 of Latin words, that have the appearance of a magical in- 

 cantation ;" an inconvenience, continues he, sufficient to deter 

 many persons "from a charming study, offered with so 

 pedantic an apparatus." 



These difficulties being removed by Linnaeus ; and, as I ^ 

 have observed, some late writers having introduced a more 

 simple language than was formerly used, the study of botany 

 has been rendered as easy as it is pleasing ; and, in gratitude 

 to Linnaeus and his successors, we should avail ourselves of 

 the advantages they have procured us. 



While writing the above, I received the fourth volume of 

 Sir J. E. Smith's Eiiglish Flora, which comes, accompanied 

 by the intelligence that its author is no more ; as though he 

 had lived but to complete that valuable work. By the con- 

 clusion, it appears, that ill health has so long delayed the 

 publication of this volume. I have looked for it with im- 

 patience, and cannot refrain from availing myself of this 

 opportunity of acknowledging my gratitude to one to whom 

 botany and botanists are so deeply indebted ; and whose last 

 work has been to me, for some years past, a delightful com- 

 panion, and an instructive friend. 



Art. VIII. The Jussieuean, or Natural, System of Plants. 

 {Continued from p. 37.) 



Having given a general view of the two grand physiological 

 divisions of plants, Cellulares and Vasculares, we shall next 

 present a short tabular view of their systematic subdivisions^ 

 and afterwards arrange all the genera of the plants indigenous or 

 introduced into Britain, under the different classes, subclasses 

 or orders, and tribes, into which they are thrown by the natural 

 system. The following is a general view of the leading divi- 

 sions, with their characters : — 



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